Just got back from watching the HELVETICA documentary currently touring the US.

We saw it at a great location, Laguna Beach, south of LA. Funny thing was we're standing in this long line of design dweebs, art students, etc... ppl would come by and ask us what movie we were waiting to get in to, "Helvetica ofcourse, it's the new suspense thriller, haven't you heard?" At least that's what we ended up saying because how do you explain to ppl you're waiting in line to see a movie about a font.

It was very intriguing with exceptional interviews, perfect imagery and a lovely soundtrack to boot. I would NOT recommend this for a first date movie unless you are both design, type/ font nerds..... Hell, there was one part toward the end where they were showing a poster and the kerning was terrible (NAIL), you just heard ppl in the audience, including yourself, saying "KERNING!" ha, bliss, hahhaa. Some ppl also got up and never came back but it was a full house. David Carson was also supposed to do an interview afterwards but failed to show up.

So, why did I post this under this particular design? There were some that were so offended by the fact I settled for Helvetica, as if I were some design student dropout. They were sincerely disgusted by this tee specifically because of the type, at least I'm talking about the ppl with a design education/background (actually even ppl w/o any design knowledge summed it up as an absurdly plain font with some scribbles, a perfect description I guess). I know that some of the ppl in the movie I saw tonite would continue to be disgusted but I also felt vindicated to some degree, although I never felt I did something wrong to begin with. When I initially created it I had multiple type solutions, many hand rendered, but I just kept going back to this initial solution. The Helvetica juxtaposed with the scribbles, the conformity and the recklessness, the black and the pink. It doesn't really matter but I just wanted to post this after seeing the movie and I hope some of you check it out.